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Posted on 08/28/2025 5:10:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Throughout history, starting and then losing unprovoked wars has been a reliable way for dictators to forfeit their grip on power, either at the vengeful hands of the countries they targeted, via palace coups by disgruntled elites or occasionally even through uprisings by ordinary citizens weary of making sacrifices for a tyrant's deadly delusions. Within days of losing the Falklands Islands War to the United Kingdom in 1982, Argentina's General Leopoldo Galtieri, the leader of the embattled military junta that had launched the war to head off popular demands for new elections, resigned his office and started the process of restoring democracy. To say that things have not ended well for many individual dictators who tried to add territorial aggrandizement to domestic oppression, from Benito Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, is putting it lightly.
That stark history surely weighs heavily on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has been Russia's increasingly brutal authoritarian leader throughout nearly the entirety of the 21st century and whose disastrous war of choice in Ukraine entered its fourth year in February, a conflict that has failed to "achieve almost any of his stated military objectives," said the Institute for the Study of War, "despite an estimated 900,000 Russians killed and wounded." While Putin's regime is currently in no danger of being overthrown by Ukrainian tanks surrounding the Kremlin, the longer the war drags on without a decisive military breakthrough, the more likely it is that Putin could be subject to removal from rivals inside Russia, or perhaps even tossed aside by the Russian people themselves.
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Putin himself "constantly considers potential successors and confirmed he has a list of candidates," said the Kyiv Independent, citing an interview the Russian strongman conducted with "pro-Russian state journalist Pavel Zarubin." Putin, unfortunately, did not reveal any names on his list.
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What a bunch of Ukrainian propaganda.
“ What a bunch of Ukrainian propaganda.”
Agree. What a crock. Funny thing is, you can tell it’s going to be a Propoganda hit piece by just reading the title. Almost funny.
Putin, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
I’d be shocked if Putin didn’t think about potential successors all the time. Someone in his position not only would have to plan for normal continuity of government, but identify and weaken threats, pit rivals and factions against each other, flatter and reward supporters, build legislative blocs, etc., all without spookung the herd. Putin has made himself indispensible to the ruling elite — there will be a mad scramble for power and spoils when he goes. Things will not get instantly better from our perspective.
Putin is that paranoid.
In a general sense, it is fundamentally wise to ignore and not post articles that depend on Kyiv Independent or the Institute for the Study of War.
As for Putin’s successor the list starts with Medvedev and maybe, just maybe, ends with Igor Sechin.
Neither has any interest at all in any measures not designed to propel Russia to inevitable dominance.
If anything happens to me nuke Ukraine and the rest of those Euroweenies.
When is Putin going to descend from an open window ??
Putin hasn’t figured it out yet.
Russian birth rate has dropped dramatically.
They are killing a lot of younger men in a war.
His society will be changed dramatically
in the coming years.
I fear it will not be for the better.
I was in the military, working with nukes.
I would have been happy to destroy their military,
and government, but not the people.
Hard to predict. But it's likely that Russia will not longer remain intact.
Chechnya will become independent. Then others will likely follow.
Yeah, I wouldn’t want to be on that list. How many will be alive two years from now?
The Ukrainian drones cutting refinery output in Russia by 22% is a serious blow. Russia is losing a lot of revenue, and is struggling to continue the war. A lot of people haven’t been paid; when there is no money to pay the soldiers, then the problem will be really serious.
Theoretically, when Putin loses his revenue from selling oil, he’ll be forced to end the war in Ukraine. Then he’ll have to negotiate.
War is pretty much over, Russian troops have now entered Odessa according to what I saw tonight. Trump has helped to isolate the U.S. and the rest of the world is pivoting to the new Multi-Polar world where the Dollar is no longer the Reserve Currency.
Russia in 3 years has destroyed the Ukraine army, over 1.5 million dead, they are now finished and no troops will come from the U.S. or NATO to help as we have none to send.
Fake news.
It is more likely that Russia will collapse suddenly and completely. Huge numbers of unpaid soldiers with powerful weapons directed by ruthless men can make a lot of trouble.
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At the bottom of the article is a short Bio of David Faris.
Did you even notice he is a Democrat? Promoting his Democrat Book.
You should be more careful about the authors you promote here.
Some Freepers might mistake you a Democrat too.
“David Faris is an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University and the author of It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting
Majority in American Politics. He is a frequent contributor to Informed
Comment, and his work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Christian
Science Monitor, and Indy Week.”
David Faris is an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University
and the author of It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting
Majority in American Politics
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